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1 And nowhere will he find this book of nature more freshly and beautifully opened for him than in The Story without an End , of its kind one of the best that was ever written . And Nature , the old nurse , took The child upon her knee ...
1 And nowhere will he find this book of nature more freshly and beautifully opened for him than in The Story without an End , of its kind one of the best that was ever written . And Nature , the old nurse , took The child upon her knee ...
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This of the mule for instance :The mule is half horse and half jackass , and then comes to a full stop , Nature discovering her mistake . The only way to keep a mule in a pasture is to turn it into a meadow adjoining , and let it jump ...
This of the mule for instance :The mule is half horse and half jackass , and then comes to a full stop , Nature discovering her mistake . The only way to keep a mule in a pasture is to turn it into a meadow adjoining , and let it jump ...
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To do it justice , however , would demand a close psychological study , so curious and complex were the nature and genius of the man ; the nature was a singular growth for such a soil , the genius out of keeping with the environment ...
To do it justice , however , would demand a close psychological study , so curious and complex were the nature and genius of the man ; the nature was a singular growth for such a soil , the genius out of keeping with the environment ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 122 |
| Editors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) |
| Contributor | George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1867 |
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